Dazed and Confused called Nell Zink’s The Wallcreeper its book of 2014. Ever since its publication by the tiny New York publisher the Dorothy Project, Zink has been gaining more and more praise for her extraordinary writing.

I spoke to her for 3AM Magazine about the radical protagonist of her debut novel, on her moving out of the US to pursue a writing career, how reviewers have been coping with the racial and sexual complexity of Mislaid, and what effect Jonathan Franzen’s promotion of her work has had on her success so far.